Doom Almanac September 10 in doom history

September10

The world was due to end on September 10, 2008

It didn’t. The desk has 2 items filed under this date.

On this day in doom history

2 items · 2 predictions
  1. 200818th anniversary
    Doomsday · busted

    World's Biggest Physics Experiment Switches On; World Declines to Be Swallowed

    Lawsuits warned the LHC might make planet-eating black holes. It made a Higgs boson instead.

    The Large Hadron Collider Swallows the Earth · Walter L. Wagner, Luis Sancho and Otto Rossler (LHC opponents)

    A proud date in the long history of things not happening.

  2. 20188th anniversary
    Said on this day

    UN Chief Gives the World Two Years to Avoid 'Runaway Climate Change'; the UN Then Issues a Fresh Deadline

    In 2018 the UN chief gave the world until 2020 to change course or risk missing the point where runaway climate change could be avoided. The deadline passed.

    Change Course by 2020 or Risk Runaway Climate Change · Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General (speech in New York)

    Deadline set: 2020 (deadline to change course) · status: Busted

    Somewhere, a calendar braced itself.

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